I have one Gigabyte 1070 GTX that runs 82deg steady with fans on auto at 55%. I turn the fan up to 100% and it drops the temp down to 68deg (yea we keep it cool in here). All other cards run 68-72deg on auto fans. This card is the 3 fan gigabyte card. All the other cards are 1 or 2 fan cards.
I've reapplied arctic thermal paste to this card and it doesn't make any change at all.
Only fix seems to be running the fan harder.
Are these just a bad design card that just run hotter, or is there something else I'm missing?
SMI Info with fan at 55%:
Wed Jan 3 17:31:28 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.69 Driver Version: 384.69 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 56% 68C P2 179W / 180W | 568MiB / 8113MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 46% 71C P2 150W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 2 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 55% 73C P2 149W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 3 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:04:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 58% 74C P2 146W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 4 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:09:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 36% 69C P2 148W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 5 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:0D:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 53% 67C P2 177W / 180W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 6 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:0E:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 54% 82C P2 138W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 7 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:0F:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 55% 68C P2 179W / 180W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
SMI with fan turned to 72%:
Wed Jan 3 17:37:26 2018
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.69 Driver Version: 384.69 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 57% 68C P2 180W / 180W | 568MiB / 8113MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:02:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 46% 70C P2 153W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 2 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 57% 72C P2 147W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 3 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:04:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 60% 74C P2 149W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 100% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 4 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:09:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 36% 69C P2 150W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 5 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:0D:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 54% 67C P2 177W / 180W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 6 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:0E:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 72% 76C P2 149W / 151W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 7 GeForce GTX 1070 On | 00000000:0F:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 58% 67C P2 179W / 180W | 528MiB / 8114MiB | 99% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+